The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ Codebreakers Who Fought the Cold War
Language: English
Published by Aurum Press, 2016
- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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1st printing 2016 with full number line. Firmly bound and seems unread. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. SIGNED on the title page 'with all my best wishes' but no personalised. No further inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss.
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- Title
- The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ Codebreakers Who Fought the Cold War
- Author
- McKay, Sinclair
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1781312974
- ISBN 13
- 9781781312971
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- History General, Intelligence & Special Forces, Military History (General)
Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, renowned author Sinclair McKay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World War.
Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking the impenetrable Enigma codes and giving the Allies an invaluable insight directly into the Nazi war machine, moved on to GCHQ. This was the British government’s new facility established to fight a different, but no less formidable foe – Stalin and the KGB.
Fascinating and insightful revelations from deep within the archives of this secret organisation reveal the story of the tumultuous early years of GCHQ as it navigated its way through an era of double agents, deception and betrayals. From the defection of the Cambridge Five and the treachery of the atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs, to the collapse of the British Empire, the ascension of Chairman Mao and the emergence of the US as a superpower, McKay deftly explores the impact these events had on the fledgling organisation.
During the years of the Cold War the men and women of GCHQ penetrated Soviet encryptions and gathered crucial intelligence from all over the world. The Spies of Winter tells the story of the codebreakers themselves and how they used new technology to expand the horizons of cryptography in order to defend the nation and maintain the fragile peace in a world now under the shadow of nuclear holocaust.
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